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Very Wise Quotes

'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'
- John Abbott

Not even the very wise can see all ends.
- J R R Tolkien

Pity? It was pity that stayed Bilbo's hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play yet, for good or ill before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.
- J R R Tolkien

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
- J R R Tolkien

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
- Jodi Picoult

...but I never shall be very wise, I'm afraid.
- Louisa May Alcott

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
- Oscar Wilde

For although I feel that I know a tremendous lot, I am not yet aware how much there is in the world to find out about. It will take me a little time to discover whether I am very wise or very foolish - Jack Pumpkinhead - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 20 chapter 2
- L Frank Baum

And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And looking with lack-lustre eye,
Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock:
Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags:
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine,
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.
- William Shakespeare

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies not plenty;
Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
- William Shakespeare

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
- Samuel Johnson

Nature Boy
There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea
A little shy
And sad of eye
But very wise
Was he
And then one day
A magic day he passed my way
And while we spoke of many things, fools and kings
This he said to me
The greatest thing
You'll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved
In return
- David Bowie

The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.
- George Carlin

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
- Beverly Cleary

We were young, we were merry, we were very, very wise, And the door stood open at our feast, When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

For you, I am like a child. For others, I am very wise.
- Santosh Kalwar

Knowledge and book learning are not wisdom," said the captain.
"Is this book wisdom?" asked Lucy, putting the manuscript back on the table.
"It has some elements of wisdom in it, me dear," replied the captain. "I did not lead a very wise life myself but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come to age very often through shipwreck and disaster, and at the heart of the whirlpool some men find God.
- R A Dick

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.
- Philip Dunne

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.
- Federico Fellini

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
- Carson Mccullers

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
- Jesse Helms

So, what you fear is fear itself, that is very wise
-Professor Lupin
- J K Rowling

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise..
- J K Rowling

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
- David Hume

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It's just a logical guess that they are very very wise to put someone from the old series in it, and if you had to choose, it would be a very difficult decision.
- Andreas Katsulas

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.
- Keira Knightley

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.
- Norman Lear

I'm not very wise to many things.
- Charles Manson

Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.
- Christopher Paolini

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.
- Frederick Pollock

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
- George Santayana

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
- Sidney Sheldon

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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